Hi!

[conuly]

I've actually been around DW for a while, but I'm always happy to have new friends with this influx!

NAME: Conuly. It's weird when people use my real name online.

AGE: 34. I'm now at the point where I have to do math to figure out my age. I used to think that was so silly when I was a kid, but boy, it hit me fast!

INTERESTS & HOBBIES: I love to read. I have two cats, and two dogs, and two nieces! And we all live together with my sister and my mother in the same house. (Only one house, sister, and mother.)

LOOKING FOR: People to comment on my entries! And, hopefully, an active set of people, a community where I can feel comfortable commenting on their entries - as LJ (and DW) became less active, it became harder for me to bridge the anxiety/inertia enough to be the first commenter on an entry. But if other people are commenting, I can manage it.

ANYTHING ELSE?: I post seven times a week (or a little more), and if I haven't posted every day then I carefully backdate to make it look like I did. I do a lot of posting of links, particularly news and (sigh) politics.

I also tend to get onto kicks. I'll post a lot about autism for a while and then stop, or about a particular fandom and then stop, or about linguistics and then stop. Right now I seem to be on a bit of a Supergirl kick (this, despite me liking iZombie more!), and also have inexplicably become interested in American prisons as they intersect (or, you know, don't) with social justice. I'm not sure how I got interested in that, I have no connection to it, but it's rare that I post articles and don't include at least one picked up from The Marshall Project.

Comments

[ex_inklessej388]

I am always looking for people to provide feedback on my comments as well. And I also post about politics (although Canadian politics, generally). I try and post as often as I can, especially now that DW is coming back to life, however I am an Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy so sometimes it is impossible for me to post from sea.

Your living arrangements sounds intense. I live in a house with my soon to be wife and her mother. And I thought that was something. I would very much be interested in reading about you life in such a busy sounding house.

[conuly]

It's usually not that intense, thank goodness - although this year has been rough. New dog(s) + NYC high school admissions (don't ask....) + Mom's breast cancer has meant a lot of running around for me, as the person who is not in paid employment. (I homeschool the nieces. Our zoned middle school is pretty awful.)

[sparkythegeek]

You had me at iZombie. ;)

[conuly]

Gosh, I love that show.

[sparkythegeek]

Me too - I laugh so hard at the effect of them on brains. :D

[conuly]

I never thought I'd say this, but I'd absolutely marry Major on Zumba instructor brains, so long as he stayed on those brains.

[sparkythegeek]

He's been SO good so far! I laughed so hard at his teenaged angst performance last week, and Zumba Major was great too. :D

And Clive's reaction to being in the know is priceless.

[tentaclecore]

I recognise your userpic from LJ.. metaquotes? Did you used to hang out there? Regardless, I looked at your journal and now there are a million and one tabs open on my browser because SCIENCE! so uh yeah, adding? Adding!

[conuly]

Yes, I did, and sometimes I post over at metaquotes here because I miss the active days of metaquotes soooooo much.

[8hyenas]

Adding! For science. And your household sounds awesome fun. I miss the years (that I wasn't alive for) when there was a family house, and you just stayed there.

[conuly]

Fun is a relative term. But it's good to have family that you love and can stand to be around, and that's what I have, so yay.

[friendlyxpsycho]

I'm new to draemwidth, a recent convert, and Id love to add you if that's ok!

[conuly]

Sure :)

[kitcatwoman]

Hi, just added you. :) I love your journal. You post a lot of interesting articles.

[conuly]

Why, thank you! I do try :)

[willnot_willso]

Well, I'm adding you! It looks like we have some similar interests and you might just be fun. I love that you carefully backdate posts!

[springviolets]

supergirl + cats + reading + politics (at least in the social justice sense, like you mentioning prisons... i try not to post about what you-know-who is doing because we have to deal with it enough)

adding you if that's ok :)

[conuly]

i try not to post about what you-know-who is doing because we have to deal with it enough)

Oh, god. If I have a lot of articles, I try to remember to shove them under a cut, because who really wants to read all that?